Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk, Sago, Good Night Out & ‘The Culture of Death’ Mildred German Unceded Territories – Art influences our present realities. Technology plays a large part in expanding the the horizons of Art. Drones and robots not only can take images in the bird’s eye view, transport items, and are treated as tools in the […]
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Metropolitan Museum of Manila This exuberant work entitled Epilogo by the artist collective Sanggawa was painted during the centennial celebration of the Philippines’ independence in 1998. It shows an amalgamation of people and moments alluding to our long and fraught struggle for independence. We see a grand hall strewn with napkins and bottles and numerous
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FILIPINOS DESERVE GREAT EPIC FILMS, FEARLESS SCREENWRITING, AND THEIR STORIES TOLD For his valour and integrity in serving the Filipino people and the Motherland, General Antonio Luna was killed by Aguinaldo’s men on June 5, 1899. Mildred German Unceded Territories – It is the Filipino Heritage Month, a month-long celebration in Canada and some parts
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Updated: June 4, 2021, 8:15 PM Winnipeg, Manitoba 12/21: Rock and Roll in Covid Time Levy Abad I was amazed seeing 1221 Band being interviewed by Winnipeg mainstream media early April 2021. My head right away went back to the years of Pinoy Rock and Roll in Winnipeg in 1972 up to the present. Alas, a breakthrough
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Vancouver, B.C. May is the Month of World Press Freedom Day Mildred German Unceded Territories – May is the month when the World Press Freedom Day is celebrated, on May 3 to be exact. This year, The United Nations’ May 3 World Press Freedom Day’s theme is “Information as a Public Good”. This theme, according
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Toronto, Ontario THE DUTERTE CONUNDRUM by Oswald Magno Under the seriously flawed Philippine Constitution, the president is safely ensconced for a fixed term of six years. Short of a popular uprising, it is practically impossible for the body politic to get rid of an erratic, whimsical, incompetent and despotic president who is causing harm for
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Rethinking the Architect’s role in building structures and spaces. Ysh Cabana in Toronto Titled Structures of Mutual Support, the Philippine pavilion is co-curated by architects Sudarshan V. Khadka, Jr. and Alexander Eriksson Furunes with the members of Brgy. Encanto, Angat, province of Bulacan. Together, they form Framework Collaborative to rethink the role of the architect
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Toronto,Ontario Fear and loathing faces eviction victims as Toronto neighbourhood gentrifies By Ysh Cabana She is known as Ate Mayeth to some. Ma. Theresa De Mesa has babysat for scores of families living in Toronto. For more than three decades, she has lived in Parkdale, an inner-city neighbourhood next door to the “Filipino town” in
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Saskatoon, Sakskatchewan ‘Hoping for a bright future…’ Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, PhilippineCanadianNews.Com (PCN.Com) Rio de Janeiro may have it’s iconic The Girl from Ipanema, but Saskatoon has its own – The Boy at Saskatoon. And he is Filipino. The Boy At Saskatoon is a 24 ft. high x 12 ft. wide mural in the prairie
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The 1901 Balangiga Massacre This battle was described as the “worst defeat of United States Army soldiers since the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876” Mildred German Unceded Territories – As the world celebrates the annual Mothers Day during every month of May, it still sparks the question in me, in addition to this
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